Trivia / 1000 Ways to Die

• California Doubling: Just about all of the deaths were filmed in Los Angeles—even those that were set somewhere else.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The series was never released on DVD or made available to buy online for obvious legal reasons. In general, finding full episodes of the series, especially from the early seasons, was quite a chore until it finally found its way onto Prime Video in more or less its entirety. It also runs on Pluto TV's Spike channel, but only the first 38 episodes are aired and then it loops back to the beginning.
  • The failed pilot "1000 Ways to Lie" only aired once on TV and was lost media at one point but it was found when it was listed as the 13th episode of Season 2 on Amazon and Itunes in 2018 and the segments were posted to Youtube in 2022.
  • There are 20 segments that never made it to the original seasons, a few examples are Bubbled Out^note two men get their stomachs ruptured after drinking too much cola and swallowing too many Mentos candies, Broke Back Cowboy ^note a western movie actor falls off his horse down the ravine and dies from breaking his spine and fracturing his skull, Safecracked Pitch ^note a burglar tries to crack open a safe but ends up falling down the staircase and breaking his ribs which puncture his heart as result, Paintful Death ^note a painter dies because of the paint stream from the paint gun ripping through the skin on the man's leg and injecting toxic chemicals into his bloodstream which kills him on the spot, Laced Up ^note A cheating woman ends up strangled by an old phone cord after talking for too long and then accidentally shutting the door on it and Dead Me Stallion ^note a woman dies of internal bleeding after attempting to have sex with a horse but only their foreign dubs can be found online, and it's unclear if the English versions of the aforementioned segments even exist. However, Bubbled Out and S*** Dead ^note A man who dies of salmonella when a bird poops on his face and it gets in his mouth apparently did have english versions uploaded to Nicovideo before Viacom took them down.
• Follow the Leader: A similar show called Curious and Unusual Deaths ran on the Discovery Health channel in 2009 and 2012. There were some key differences: Curious was an hour-long with only three deaths per episode, each analyzed in scientific detail. Also, the deaths and the circumstances and details surrounding them are more closely based on what actually happened. As such, the victims are portrayed, for the most part, as much less Jerkass-ish than 1000 Ways, just normal but unlucky people. One episode even had a recreation of Brandon Lee's on-set death filming The Crow.
• Uncredited Role: Neither of the show's three narrators — Series creator Thom Beers (who narrated the pilot episodes), Ron Perlman, and "Shotgun" Tom Kelly — were credited during the series. Many of the on-camera actors also lack credits.
• You Look Familiar: Some of the characters have been played by the same actor, such as:
  • A teen who escapes death by refusing a dare to pee on an electric fence, and a teenager who play pranks on his parents with a robot he built himself, only to end up getting killed by it.
  • The jealous ex-boyfriend who used a trash can as a toilet and died rolling downhill in "Sh** Canned" and the CEO in "Sumowed."
  • The Peeping Tom landlord who got his skull crushed in while spying on a woman bathing in "Blood Bath & Beyond" and the Fat Bastard who died of excess MSG from a steady diet of Chinese buffet food in "Death of Sum Young Guy." One of the women he peeps on in the former segment is also the same Gamer Chick who beats the gamer who dies in "Game Stopped", both portrayed by Marisha Ray.
  • Fernando in "Anger Damagement" and the Fijian chief in "Reef Stew."
  • The con artist in "OMG! SUV! R.I.P." and the fat man who dies of appendicitis in "Fat Man in a Little Swing."
  • The dwarf who plays Cary Grant's role in "North by Northwasted" and the planking-obsessed dwarf in "Waste Dead."
  • There's also a case of "You Sound Familiar": the song performed by that washed-up boy band in "Boyz 2 Dead" is also the song that the underwear-clad girl being spied on by the Peeping Tom landlord sang in "Blood, Bath, and Beyond." With both of these being aired in the same episode, no less.
  • The screeching My Beloved Smother who dies when the refrigerator falls on her in "Smother in Law" also plays the vain stripper with unhumanly-huge boobs who asphyxiates when she accidentally gives herself Marshmallow Hell in "Boobie-cide."